- ISBN: 9780133575422 | 013357542X
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 6/1/1995
Offers a global overview of art from prehistoric times to the present while explaining the historical, social, and political context of each artistic period
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Contents | |
| Use Notes | |
| Starter Kit | |
| Introduction | |
| Prehistory and Prehistoric Art in Europe | |
| The Paleolithic Period | |
| The Neolithic Period | |
| The Bronze Age | |
| The Iron Age | |
| The Object Speaks: Prehistoric Woman and Man | |
| Art of the Ancient Near East | |
| The Fertile Crescent | |
| Early Neolithic Cities | |
| Sumer | |
| Akkad | |
| Lagash | |
| Babylon and Mari | |
| Assyria | |
| Neo-Babylonia | |
| Elam | |
| Anatolia | |
| Persia | |
| The Object Speaks: The Code of Hammurabi | |
| Art of Ancient Egypt | |
| Neolithic And Predynastic Egypt | |
| Early Dynastic Egypt | |
| The Old Kingdom | |
| The Middle Kingdom | |
| The New Kingdom | |
| The Continuing Influence of Egyptian Art | |
| The Object Speaks: The Temples of Rameses II | |
| Aegean Art | |
| The Aegean World | |
| The Cycladic Islands in the Bronze Age | |
| Mainland Greece and the Mycenaean Civilization | |
| The Object Speaks: The "Mask of Agamemnon" | |
| Art of Ancient Greece | |
| The Emergence of Greek Civilization | |
| The Geometric Period | |
| The Orientalizing Period | |
| The Archaic Period | |
| The Classical Period in Greek Art | |
| The Transitional, or Early Classical, Period | |
| The Fifth-Century Classical Period | |
| Classical Art of the Fourth Century | |
| The Hellenistic Period | |
| The Object Speaks: The Parthenon | |
| Etruscan Art and Roman Art | |
| Etruscan Civilization | |
| Roman History | |
| The Republican and Augustan Periods | |
| The Empire | |
| The Roman City and Home | |
| The Late Empire | |
| The Object Speaks: The Unswept Floor | |
| Early Christian, Jewish, and Dyzantine Art | |
| Jews And Christians in the Roman Empire | |
| Jewish and Early Christian Art | |
| Imperial Christian Architecture and Art | |
| Early Byzantine Art | |
| Middle Byzantine Art | |
| Late Byzantine Art | |
| The Object Speaks: The Archangel Michael | |
| Islamic Art | |
| Islam And Early Islamic Society | |
| Art During the Early Caliphates | |
| Later Islamic Society and Art | |
| Art of India before 1100 | |
| The Indian Subcontinent | |
| Indus Valley Civilization | |
| The Vedic Period | |
| The Maurya Period | |
| The Period of the Shungas and Early An Dhras | |
| The Kushan and Later Andhra Period | |
| The Gupta Period | |
| The Po St-Gupta Period | |
| The Early Medieval Period | |
| Chinese Art before 1280 | |
| The Middle Kingdom | |
| Neolithic Cultures | |
| Bronze Age China | |
| The Chinese Empire: Qin Dynasty | |
| Han Dynasty | |
| Six Dynasties | |
| Sui and Tang Dynasties | |
| Song Dynasty | |
| Japanese Art before 1392 | |
| Prehistoric Japan | |
| Asuka Period | |
| Nara Period | |
| Heian Period | |
| Kamakura Period | |
| The Object Speaks: Monk Sewing | |
| Art of the Americas before 1300 | |
| The New World | |
| Mesoamerica | |
| Central America | |
| South America: The Central Andes | |
| North America | |
| Art of Ancient Africa | |
| The Lure of Ancient Africa | |
| Saharan Rock Art | |
| Sub-Saharan Civilizations | |
| Other Urban Centers | |
| Early Medieval Art in Europe | |
| The Middle Ages | |
| The British Isles and Scandinavia | |
| Christian Spain | |
| Langobard Italy | |
| Carolingian Europe | |
| Scandinavia: The Vikings | |
| Ottonian Europe | |
| The Object Speaks: The Doors of Bishop Bernward | |
| Romanesque Art | |
| Romanesque Culture | |
| France and Northern Spain | |
| The North Sea Kingdoms | |
| The Holy Roman Empire | |
| Ancient Rome and Romanesque Italy | |
| The Object Speaks: The Bayeux Tapestry | |
| Gothic Art | |
| The Gothic Style | |
| France | |
| England | |
| Spain | |
| Germany and the Holy Roman Empire | |
| Italy | |
| The Object Speaks: Notre-Dame of Paris | |
| Early Renaissance Art in Europe | |
| The Renaissance and Humanism | |
| Art of the French Ducal Courts | |
| Art of Flanders | |
| The Spread of the Flemish Style | |
| The Graphic Arts | |
| Art of Italy | |
| The Object Speaks: The Foundling Hospital | |
| Renaissance Art in Sixteenth-Century Europe | |
| Europe in the Sixteenth Century | |
| The Classical Phase of the Renaissance In Italy | |
| The Renaissance and Reformation in Germany | |
| Late Renaissance Art in Italy | |
| Renaissance Art in France | |
| Renaissance Art in Spain | |
| Renaissance Painting in the Netherlands | |
| Renaissance Art in England | |
| The Object Speaks: Feast in the House of Levi | |
| Baroque Art in Europe and North America | |
| The Baroque Period | |
| Italy | |
| France | |
| Habsburg Germany and Austria | |
| Habsburg Spain | |
| Spanish Colonies in the Americas | |
| The Southern Netherlands/Flanders | |
| The Northern Netherlands/United Dutch Republic | |
| England | |
| English Colonies in North America | |
| The Object Speaks: Brueghel and Rubens's Sight | |
| Art of India after 1100 | |
| Late Medieval Period | |
| Mughal Period | |
| The Modern Period | |
| Chinese Art after 1280 | |
| The Mongol Invasions | |
| Yuan Dynasty | |
| Ming Dynasty | |
| Qing Dynasty | |
| The Modern Period | |
| Japanese Art after 1392 | |
| Muromachi Period | |
| Momoyama Period | |
| Edo Period | |
| The Meiji and Modern Periods | |
| Art of the Americas after 1300 | |
| Indigenous American Art | |
| Mexico and South America | |
| North America | |
| Other Contemporary Native American Artists | |
| The Object Speaks: Hamatsa Mask | |
| Art of Pacific Cultures | |
| The Peopling of the Pacific | |
| Australia | |
| Melanesia | |
| Micronesia | |
| Polynesia | |
| Recent Art in Oceania | |
| Art of Africa in the Modern Era | |
| Traditional and Contemporary Africa | |
| Children and the Continuity Of Life | |
| The Spirit World | |
| Leadership | |
| Death and Ancestors | |
| Contemporary Art | |
| Eighteenth-Century Art in Europe and North America | |
| The Enlightenment and Its Revolutions | |
| The Rococo Style in Europe | |
| Art in Italy | |
| Revivals and Romanticism in Britain | |
| Art in France | |
| Art in North America | |
| The Object Speaks: Georgian Silver | |
| Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United States | |
| Europe and the United States in the Nineteenth Century | |
| Neoclassicism and Romanticism in France | |
| Romanticism in Spain | |
| Romantic Landscape Painting in Europe | |
| Naturalistic, Romantic, and Neoclassical American Art | |
| Revival Styles in Architecture Before | |
| 1850 Early Photography in Europe | |
| New Materials and Technology in Architecture at Midcentury | |
| French Academic Art and Architecture | |
| French Naturalism and Realism and their Spread | |
| Late-Nineteenth-Century Art in Britain | |
| Impressionism | |
| Post Impressionism | |
| Art in the United States | |
| The Object Speaks: Raft of the "Medusa" | |
| The Rise of Modernism in Europe and North America | |
| Europe and the United States in the Early Twentieth Century | |
| Early Modernist Tendencies in Europe | |
| Cubism in Europe | |
| Early Modernist Tendencies in the United States | |
| Early Modern Architecture | |
| Modernism in Europe Between the Wars | |
| Art and Architecture in the United States Between the Wars | |
| Early Modern Art in Canada | |
| The Object Speaks: Portrait of a German Officer | |
| The International Avant-Garde since 1945 | |
| The World Since | |
| 1945 Postwar European Art | |
| Abstract Expressionism | |
| Alternatives to Abstract Expressionism | |
| From Modernism to Postmodernism | |
| Postmodernism | |
| The Object Speaks: The Dinner Party | |
| Glossary | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Credits | |
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